Quotes About Adversity

I said we aren't here to fucking like Vietnamese things, we're here to kill or be killed by them, and telling me to wander around looking for bright sides and good things is like telling me to hurry up and get dead.

Like the many others who have suffered after him, Paul allowed his adversity to become a platform for the gospel. What the Enemy hoped would thwart the gospel actually advanced it. If for no other reason than this, we should think twice before we complain about our difficult situations. It just might be that God is up to something eternal!

Quite often the Lord uses the adversity in our lives as a lens through which He can be seen! In the process of it all, He is developing our character so that we can be worthy reflectors of His glory. Paul teaches us that character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trials and suffering can the soul be strengthened.

Adversity promotes the progress of the gospel. 2. Adversity provides opportunities to witness. 3. Adversity produces courage in our fellow believers. 4. Adversity proves the character of our friendships. 5. Adversity provokes growth in our lives. 6. Adversity purifies our motives. 7. Adversity prepares us to see life and death in perspective.

The outward man is perishing; the inward man is being renewed daily. •?The light affliction is today's problems; the eternal glory is tomorrow's promise. •?The things that are seen are temporary; the things that are not seen are eternal.

Failure sucks, but instructs.

the reality is posttraumatic growth happens more than posttraumatic stress.

I know you're drowning. You'll keep sinking for a while, but there will come a point when you'll hit bottom. Then you'll have a decision to make. Do you stay there or push off and start to rise again?

Orang-orang tahu bahwa terkadang pelajaran terbesar kita terletak pada rasa sakit yang paling menyakitkan.

The greatness of man lies in the decision to be stronger than his condition.

In another assignment, he wrote about how one day, when he refused to do extracredit homework, his mother padlocked his comic book collection in a closet; unable to pick the lock, he removed the hinges and took off the door.

suffering could make a person "splendid"—more able to appreciate the range of human existence and emotions.

You've got to have the emotional understanding that you can make the right play time and time again," he would say, "but you can still lose. And even if you lose four times in a row, you're still supposed to make the same play the fifth time. It's a very easy concept in theory, but in practice it's much harder, especially when you see people making bad moves and they win. You have to do the right move all the time." Once

If there isn't any solution, it's not a problem. It's a situation.

There are all these moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.

Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah

I don't want you to think I got through this undamaged, okay? But I'm learning to live with it. Because otherwise, the damage is all you are.

Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold you together

My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.

if my whole world is going to crash down around me, then i am going to make the sound of the crashing

If goodness can't come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable.

I saw his scars - the visible ones-and saw how breaking him had not made him any less beautiful. If anything, he stood stronger, because he'd survived.

Forget about the ones who set you up to see you fall.

This, I think, is how people survive: Even when horrible things have been done to us, we can still find gratitude in one another.